Japanese animated movie Grave of the Fireflies, directed by Isao Takahata, was screened on the concluding day of the 8th Patna film festival on Tuesday. The festival was organised by Hiraval (Jan Sanskriti Manch) at Kalidas Rangalaya.

China's irritation with the call, the first by a US president-elect or president since President Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China in 1979, has mostly been directed at the self-ruled island China claims as its own.

The Union Government should give up its proposal of establishing ‘Nuclear Park’ at Kudankulam by constructing four more reactors in addition to the already built first two 1,000 MWe reactors with Rus...

By Devika Krishna Kumar | NEW YORK NEW YORK Oil prices rallied for their best week in at least five years on Friday, steadying above $51 a barrel, following OPEC's decision to cut crude output to rein in a global glut that has weighed on prices for more than two years.After the deal was announced on Wednesday, the market focused on the implementation and impact of OPEC's first output cuts since 2008, to be joined by Russia and possibly other non-OPEC producers.Crude prices were pressured by data showing oil output in Russia rose in November to a post-Soviet high and Moscow's plan to use its record November oil production as its baseline when it cuts output.With cuts being implemented next year only against end-2016 levels, analysts said there was still a possibility that oversupply, which has halved oil prices since 2014, remains a factor next year."Global, and especially U.S., crude oil inventories are currently at extremely high levels after two years of massive oversupply," Societe Generale analysts ...

Trapped deep in the despair of the merciless Syrian war, she turned a volunteer setting up field hospitals as bombs flew past.
A nuclear physicist in post-war Munich, he stood up against the N-bomb as a weapon of deterrence. As Jagadishan, he resigned a high-profile job to join a campaign against GM cotton.
Poet, performer and peace-builder of repute, Rama Mani donned these roles on stage with finesse, weaving together powerful testimonies of resistance, protest and a yearning to shape a humane, shared future.
Lines of reality and hope, talk and performance blurred as Mani had the audience in rapt attention. She was delivering in her own characteristic style, the 17th Kappen memorial lecture here on Friday.
It was Mani's 'Theatre of Transformation,' a dramatised recollection of memories from her 25 years' experience in peace-building in war-torn countries. In one moment, she was a 28-year-old Syrian, propped by a cap and gown as costumes.
"Soldiers started firing at us, bombing us. But we had people to ...

Exactly 45 years ago, the Pakistan Air Force launched a largely ineffectual pre-emptive strike on Indian Air Force bases, inspired by the Israeli Air Force strikes on Arab bases during the 1967 Arab-...

ONGOLE: As the ruling BJP and TDP plan to turn Andhra Pradesh into a nuclear power hub with a series of Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs), CPI national secretary K. Narayana on Thursday warned of massive St...

By Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta | HAVANA HAVANA Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday.

Despite some acknowledgement of the necessity of nuclear power to fulfil energy needs, people will continue in the short term to view nuclear technologies with apprehension, according to an official of the Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation.

Wheat importsCountrywide austerity, intensification of internal procurement and exploring all available sources for wheat imports — this is how the Congress Parliamentary Party’s Executive Committee t...

By Vera Eckert and John Miller | ZURICH/FRANKFURT ZURICH/FRANKFURT Switzerland votes in a referendum on Sunday on whether to make a speedy withdrawal from atomic energy production, a move that would reduce nuclear risks but raise reliance on fossil fuels from Germany or imported nuclear power from France.The opposition Swiss Greens and Social Democrats have pushed for a vote since the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, but the government and industry oppose a quick exit, saying Switzerland would be unable to replace power supplies with renewable energy.Recent surveys from the gfs.bern polling institute show the "Yes" and "No" camps in the referendum are neck and neck.Switzerland prides itself on the fact that two thirds of its power is hydroelectric, from reservoirs in the Alps, but it also counts on nuclear energy for a third of its power output.Anti-nuclear groups are pushing for it to follow neighbouring Germany, which shut 40 percent of its nuclear reactors after Fukushima and will close the rest by ...

Haley, 44, represents what some Republicans have said could be the new
face of the Republican Party: a younger, more diverse generation of
leaders who could help bolster conservatives as US demographics shift.